A Chid Called It
A Child Called It was the book I chose for my summer reading book this year. The main character, Dave Pelzer, wrote the book. It took place in San Francisco, California from 1960 to about 1972. This book is a series of 4 (A Child Called It being the first of the series). It is a True story of one of the worst abusive cases recorded in California history.
It all started out when Dave Pelzer was born in 1960 in San Francisco. His mother was a homemaker and an alcoholic, his dad was a fireman so he wasn't home a lot. Dave also had two brothers who were told to never acknowledge the fact that Dave was there. His mother never showed him any love or never cared for him as her son, she didn't even refer to him as her son. She would refer to him as "that child" or "it". She put him through unbelievable things, things you couldn't even imagine surviving through. Dave had no friends and no one to go to about his abuse. Dave thought that every family had a child that they didn't care for,......
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